I am new to cell culture technique and reading papers on cell culture.Is there any criteria for selecting certain cell culture (cell line)?

I need to select a cell type to start my experiment. My experiment is on female genital tract infection and I intend to see cytokine expression. I have read about J774 but I do not know why to use...

09 August 2020 8,504 3 View

Need help- how to use primary and secondary data in same paper in regression?

Actually am trying to use regression for my paper where am drawing primary data questionnaire(independant)from few universities students and trying to establish relations with student...

02 May 2020 7,097 3 View

Can anyone help me convert the concentration of human anti-hepatitis B antibody (Hepabig) from IU/ml to mg/ml?

I am using Hepabig brand which only states 100 IU/0.5 ml concentration of antibody but no mg/ml immunoglobulin concentration estimate.

05 March 2019 5,808 15 View

How to test purity of cultured macrophages with flow cytometry?

What's a good strategy to gate macrophages cultured from isolated bone marrow cells? Available antibodies are CD115, CD11b, F4/80 and Gr-1.

31 October 2018 1,529 2 View

Is there a simple method to use pslegend (GMT) to create a legend for 2-D plot?

I am new for Generic Mapping Tool (GMT), but I would like to work through a few simple examples of generating legends (ie. multiple points or lines plotted on a single figure using psxy). In the...

26 April 2018 8,197 3 View

Hi, is it possible to observe increase in cell viability of normal fibroblast cells (NIH3T3) with increasing biosurfactant-coated iron oxide NPs?

I have repeated the experiment twice (in triplicates/experiment) and have observed increase in viability with increased nanoparticle concentration (100 ug/ml-1 mg/ml). Can anyone please help me...

15 March 2018 8,589 2 View

How to use high precise geoid for mineral exploration?

Recently, many scientific applications such as: In geology, the inversion of the geoid is used for Petroleum Exploration. I am looking for studies and research in this field

01 January 2018 2,539 4 View

Is there big difference between the monophasic stimulation and biphasic stimulation on the neuronal secretion of neurotransmitter

Is there big difference between the monophasic stimulation and biphasic stimulation on the neuronal secretion of neurotransmitter? I want to detect the stimulated DA in the striatum when...

26 May 2017 6,683 2 View

What methodology would you recommend for analyzing I Daniel Blake and an observational tv reality show such as Benefits Street?

As a social scientist, the world of film analysis is new to me and I am interested in exploring how lone parent wellbeing is portrayed in I, Daniel Blake and then contrasted with an observational...

25 April 2017 5,443 5 View

Does anyone have experience with variations in infection efficiency?

I am using lentiviral vectors (2nd and 3rd generation) containing a fluorescent labeled backbone (hOSKM). After transfection of HEK239-T cells, were I could see a clear fluorescent signal after 24...

18 September 2016 6,219 2 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

Has anyone had luck using cell lines other than HEK 293 (such as COS1) to package lentivirus?

I am looking to package lentivirus in endothelial cells but I am opposed to using 293 cells due to personal ethics regarding the source. I have done some reading and saw that COS1, COS7, & CHO...

25 February 2021 3,030 1 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View